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Identifier: gri_c00033125008700094 (find matches)
Title: The grammar of ornament
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877 Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Decoration and ornament Decorative arts
Publisher: London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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o and Giovanni da Udine, we see how the favouritepupils of the incomparable master succeeded in avoiding faults against good taste, which he and hiscontemporaries cannot fail to have recognised in his former work, favourably as it was received bythe popular voice, not only of courtiers, but of artists. Unlike the arabesques of the Vatican, whichare executed, for the most part, upon white grounds, those of this delicious suburban retreat are, forthe most part, worked out upon variously coloured grounds-a habit to which Giulio Eomano appearsto have been more partial than either Eaffaelle or Giovanni da Udine. The villa itself was built by Eomano and his fellow-labourer for Pope Clement VII., when CardinalGiulio de Medici, the first designs having been given by Eaffaelle. The work was still incompletewhen it was partially destroyed by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, to revenge himself upon Clement VII.,who had burnt fourteen of his castles in the Campagna of Eome. The villa is now rapidly going
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Detail of a Portion of a Stucco Ceiling in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove, Eome, by Carlo Maderno. to decay; but the grandeur of the three arches still remaining is sufficient to show that the designwas worthy of Eaffaelle; and that it was his is proved beyond a doubt, by a letter to FrancescoMaria, Duke of Urbino, written by Castiglione, as well as by some drawings, which, together withthe letter, are still in existence. The Villa Madama was purchased after the confiscation of the Medicis property, in 1537, by 143 II IM i ITALIAN ORNAMENT. Margaret, daughter of Charles V., and widow of Duke Alexander de Medici, and from her title ofMadama the villa takes its name. The building was partially restored, though never completed,and Margaret resided there on her marriage with Ottavio Farnese. The crown of Naples afterwardsbecame possessed of it, with the rest of the Farnese property, through a marriage with that-family. So large a number of arabesque decorations were executed by the pupils an

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